Studies have found that 35% of lesbians had a history of excessive drinking, compared to only 5% of the heterosexual women in the sample (Saghir, 1970; Lewis, 1982). Approximately 30% of lesbians and gay men are addicted to drugs (Rofes, 1983). The facts show that the homosexual community constitutes a high-risk population with regard to alcoholism and drug abuse.

Keep in mind that while homosexuals make up only 1-3% of the population:

* The average lifetime of a gay is 42, a lesbian 49
* 67% of all AIDS cases in the U.S are the direct result of homosexual activity
* More than 70% of homosexuals reported having or having had a sexually transmitted disease
* Homosexual youth are 23 times more likely to contract a STD than heterosexuals
* Over 50% of the nation's syphilis cases are the result of homosexual behavior
* Over 50% of the nation's gonorrhea cases are the result of homosexual behavior
* 90% of homosexuals have chronic or recurring herpes virus
* 50% of homosexuals suffer from the 'gay bowel syndrome'
* 80% of homosexuals admit to participating in oral-anal activities in which a medically significant level of feces is ingested
* The inward expansion of the rectum during anal intercourse frequently tears the rectal lining
* 25% of the homosexuals acknowledge they have an emotional disorder
* A lesbian is 3 times more likely to get breast cancer than a heterosexual woman

Behavior

* 20% - 40% of homosexuals have sexually molested chidren
* A homosexual is 17 times more likely molest a child
* 90% of homosexuals have engaged in rectal intercourse
* The average homosexual will have sex with 110 partners annually
* 22% to 37% of homosexuals indulge in painful or violent sex
* 96% of the AIDS cases are spread through homosexuals, bisexuals, and drug-users
* 70% of homosexuals estimate that 50% of their partners are one night stands
* Homosexuals experience a much higher degree of self-destructive behavior, including alcohol, drug abuse, and emotional and physical violence
* 25% - 33% of homosexuals are alcoholic
* 50% of homosexuals would be upset if their child became homosexual
* Homosexuals are 15 times more inclined to murder than heterexuals

one look at a large house with a group of ten randomly selected homosexual men in their mid-thirties, would produce the following demographics: * 4 of the 10 men are currently in relationships, but only 1 of the 4 is faithful to his partner, and he will not be within a year.
* 4 have never had any relationship last more than a year, and only 1 has had a relationship that lasted more than 3 years. 6 are having sex regularly with strangers, and the group averages almost 2 partners per person per month.
* 3 of them occasionally take part in orgies.
* 1 is a sadomasochist,
* 1 prefers boys to men!
* 3 of the men are currently alcoholics,
* 5 have a history of alcohol abuse,
* 4 have a history of drug abuse.
* 3 currently smoke cigarettes,
* 5 regularly use at least one illegal drug, and
* 3 have seriously contemplated suicide, and
* 2 attempted suicide.
* 8 have a history of sexually transmitted diseases,
* 8 currently carry infectious pathogens and
* 3 currently suffer from digestive or urinary ailments caused by these pathogens.
* At least 3 are HIV- positive, and
* 1 has AIDS.
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sources at the top of the article

They said that many gay men attend the events not to indulge chemical or sexual appetites but simply to bask in an environment free of the bigotry they face elsewhere in society.

Critics counter that circuit parties have an impact beyond their perimeters, idealizing dangerous habits in a manner that has particular influence over young gay men.

The experience of Jeffrey W. supports that viewpoint. He said that when he moved to Manhattan after graduating from college a few years ago, he ``had no desire to be part of a drug and intense sex culture.''

But he said conversations with other gay men and glossy ads in some periodicals piqued his curiosity, and even left him with the impression that the circuit scene was the very definition of gay identity.

``I figured if there were 5,000 other men who are considered the upper crust in the gay world doing this, it must be all right and it must be the norm,'' said Jeffrey, who spoke on the condition that his last name not be used. ``I experimented quite heavily with drugs, and I began to be unsafe.''

One such moment occurred in December. Several months later, Jeffrey said, he tested positive for HIV.

A study of public high school students in the ninth to twelfth grades in the 1995 Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance found: Gay, lesbian, and bisexual orientation was associated with an increased lifetime frequency of use of cocaine, crack, anabolic steroids, inhalants, “illegal,” and injectable drugs Gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth were more likely to report using tobacco, marijuana, and cocaine before 13 years of age.
(Reference: R. Garofalo, R. Cameron Wolf, S. Kessel, et al., 1998)

Insecurity has fueled the use of crystal meth and GHB. Both of these drugs, especially in combination, impart what Piel calls "that sense of erotic urges beyond your own control." Marathon sex sessions become uninhibited, athletic, passionate, transcendent--"better than any porno," says one 21-year-old tweaker. The rampant use of steroids, which are more readily available to gay men than ever before thanks to their potential to stave off AIDS wasting, adds to the feelings of power, sexual energy, and invulnerability. And as anyone who's seen a G fallout knows, drugs certainly inhibit the ability to negotiate safer sex.

# "We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in our movie theater bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all-male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons will become our minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.
# Women, you cry for your freedom. You say you are no longer satisfied with men; they make you unhappy. We, connoisseurs of the masculine face, the masculine physique, shall take your men from you then. We will amuse them; we will embrace them when they weep.
# Women, you say you wish to live with each other instead of men. Then go ahead and be with each other. We shall give your men pleasures they have never known because we are foremost men too and only one man knows how to truly please another man; only one man can understand with depth and feeling the mind and body of another man.
# All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men.
# All homosexuals must stand together as brothers, we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.
# If you dare to cry faggot, fairy, queer, at us, we will stab you in your cowardly hearts and defile your dead puny bodies.
...
(extract from:The Homosexual Manifesto: written by Michael Swift, as originally printed in the Gay Community News, on Feb. 15-21, 1987 )

Homosexual Child Abuse:

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This high rate of molestations by homosexuals is consistent with other studies conducted during the past several decades. Here are just a few studies that show homosexuals molesting children at epidemic rates:

The Los Angeles Times conducted a survey in 1985 of 2,628 adults across the U.S. Of those, 27% of the women and 16% of the men had been sexually molested. Seven percent of the girls and 93% of the men had been molested by adults of the same sex. This means that 40% of child molestations were by homosexuals. (Los Angeles Times, August 25-6, 1985)

In 1984, a Vermont survey of 161 adolescents who were sex offenders found that 35 of them were homosexuals (22%). (Wasserman, J., “Adolescent Sex Offenders—Vermont, 1984” Journal American Medical Association, 1986; 255:181-2)

In 1991, of the 100 child molesters at the Massachusetts Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons, a third were heterosexual, a third were bisexual, and a third were homosexual. (Dr. Raymond Knight, “Differential Prevalence of Personality Disorders in Rapists and Child Molesters,” Eastern Psychological Association Conference, New York, April 12, 1991)

Drs. Freund and Heasman of the Clark Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto reviewed two studies on child molesters and calculated that 34% and 32% of the sex offenders were homosexual. In cases these doctors had handled, 36% of the molesters were homosexuals. (Freund, K. “Pedophilia and Heterosexuality vs. Homosexuality,” Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1984; 10:193-200)

From these studies and many more, it is evident that homosexuals molest children at a far greater rate than do their heterosexual counterparts. While they comprise only 1-2% of the population, they are responsible for upwards of a third or more of all sexual molestations of children.